france will ask the u.n. to open up syria's skies for western bombers and another broadside asteroids regime but our kiters number two endorses the rebellion. a sinister walk in the woods with an infuriated general on opposition journalists claims led to a showdown with russia's top investigator over an article accusing him of my feelings. and gyptian relief over the end of the year emergency rule is short lived as authorities again allow the army to detain civilians ahead of the presidential election runoff with the country's women who fear the worst.

costing live from moscow this is out. france could ask the united nations to allow a no fly zone over syria the country's foreign minister also says he hopes the u.n. will authorize the use of force in order to bring about peace and within syria they have already received the blessing of al qaeda second in command of libya he was the u.s. says it was killed in a pakistan drone strike shows him calling on this list worldwide to go to syria and join the uprising against prisoners that has been for national reports it's further evidence that extremists might be taking advantage of the country's civil war. this video is a clear indicator that in the conflict here in syria you kind global terrorist organization is taken solid and supporting those who are fighting against president bashar al assad and their eggs tending their presence in the country it's not the first message of its kind earlier in february we heard al qaeda is leader calling on all muslims to support the syrian rebels president assad has been blaming

militant groups and international terrorists for violence in his country since the beginning of the uprising here in syria last march but it took a year for the international community to start admitting that too it's only last tuesday that british foreign secretary william hague has also acknowledged that groups affiliated with al qaida were operating in syria all visibly on the side of the rebels and fuel in the conflict and violence here in the country we've also been hearing a lot and many times from u.n. members and from. members that they are ready to provide the rebels with all kinds of support with everything they need be it money or weapons this news has come at the time of the reason valas all over syria and dramatic escalation of the events and un has expressed its concern over what's going on here in the country and banking moon has called an old countries with influence on both rebels of the

syrian government to call on all parties to lay down arms and to pull back as he put it from the brink. robert naiman from the american campaign group just foreign policy believes there's a contradiction between u.s. support to the rebels and its recognition that al qaida is fighting amongst them. but i already know that the and even according to the us. they are concerned for example. like groups in iraq. syria. are likely believed by the us to be behind some of the spectacular bombings and terrorist attacks in syria on the one hand you have the u.s. saying that they are concerned about the armed opposition and their links to. the hardest on the other hand you have us providing so-called non-lethal aid to the armed opposition in and basically giving apparently

a green light to other countries to arm the opposition so yes there is a contradiction in policy. for american secretary state hillary clinton has sparked a war of words with their russian counterpart sergey lavrov off accusing moscow of selling attack helicopters to press and asset something not even the pentagon seems to know about. it has more on the diplomats fiery exchange. while the top top u.n. official may have labeled the syrian conflict a full fledged civil war according to the u.s. secretary of state russia could actually be to blame for the escalating crisis secretary of state hillary clinton to raise some eyebrows and stirred some diplomatic controversy on tuesday when she insisted that russian attack helicopters were on their way to syria take a look we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to to syria and we are concerned about the latest information we have

that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria now washington seem to be caught off guard by a secretary of state hillary clinton's remarks which stumped even the pentagon's own spokesman can you provide any details as to what kind of helicopters where they live or how are they being delivered. i have not seen reporting that indicates. that the russians are providing attack helicopters to the syrians i have just not seen that now while washington was left to sort out its confusion over the comments russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov was very clear in his denial of those allegations and we sit yes we are currently fulfilling a preexisting signed and paid for contracts for one of these contracts are related to defense only and exclusively we do not export to syria or anywhere else anything that could be used against peaceful demonstrators because you believe that's markedly different to the united states which regularly ships such weapons to the

region just recently when such shipments arrive in certain persian gulf states but for some reason the u.s. considers this normal when you now russian attack helicopters are in hot demand right now that's because the u.s. pentagon spends millions to buy russian made seventeen's on behalf of the afghan air force. well keeping a sensitive secret this. seems to be tough for washington mandarins the report later this hour there's a backlash for president obama's inner circle claims of trading national security for political gain allowing the leak of classified data. plus debts and drugs in ireland financial desperation sends increasing numbers into addiction that the government is slowly pulling funds from rehab. trouble is brewing between a russian opposition newspaper and the country's top a criminal investigator reportedly threatened one of the paper's leading reporters over an article that edging that he took part in the criminal conspiracy with

a high profile gang before marty's piece of. well the head of navi it is yet said to me to move out of has published a editorial in which he says one of his journalist surrogates was taken to woods in moscow and threatened with his life by his legs on that the strike and the chairman of the investigative committee now this all stems from an opinion piece that was written by circle of which he made a series of very serious allegations about mistaken concerning links to organized crime in southern russia now this was followed up by a public confrontation between the two following which circle of issued a formal apology now the journalist has left russia and his editor says that cycle of safety is the only concern of the newspaper and that is yet it is not on a witch hunt. or that we might have certain proof but you've got to understand we want our journalists safety to be assured not distracting to be fired that's why my

letter isn't confrontational that's why it doesn't contain all the things the side call each other in this letter we say you have threatened the life of our employee well the editorial prompted protests by journalists outside the headquarters of the investigative committee those journalists saying that they will stand by the newspaper and it's journalists whatever the outcome from these allegations now as it stands no formal charges being brought against the investigative committee or its chairman alexander at the strike and we've also heard no this statement from the investigative committee regarding these allegations the investigative committee was established in two thousand and eleven by then president dmitri medvedev and reported directly to the president of russia so we now have to wait and see what the response to these allegations will be from the committee. but r.t. dot com we've got the world at your fingertips says what said among our online videos today when the beautiful game turns into an ugly event with russian fans at

euro twenty twelve also attacked by polish hot. well so most americans agree that the best way to elect a forest is as a direct democratic vote but i'm one texan city that seems to throw the dice maybe the. egypt could be sliding back into emergency rule after the government restored rights to the army to detain civilians the muslim brotherhood is warning that the move would allow the military a tighter grip on control even after this weekend's runoff presidential election but one group is an astonishing even more chips women believe it will send the country back to the dark ages as parsley reports. she's young and ambitious and planning to become egypt's next president but she needs to wait ten years until she

turned forty so she can run not for the sake of you know winning the seat or so but for the sake of proving that egypt and women can do it but they're not doing it at the moment this woman trying to run for president this time around and couldn't even get the fifty thousand signatures to qualify our evolution is for the equality state for the freedom for the dignity and when this value those values when success we can see a woman president but with radical islam on the rise and the muslim brotherhood's candidate making it to the presidential runoff the fact that women played an important role in the demonstrations that brought down mubarak doesn't mean much the number of women in the egyptian parliament has fallen from twelve percent before the revolution to just two percent now and that's despite the fact that some fifty one percent of egypt is female noticeably absent from the presidential election campaign trails was the issue of women rights and women equality leaving

many egyptian women to fear that in the post not. a period their lives will get worse and faster other l. creme has been trying for five years to divorce her husband but divorce is tough to achieve and with an islamic influence it will only get tougher i don't want to go wherever did i don't mind giving up on a financial rights even the money left to me by my father who recently died my husband doesn't give me or our children any money and he treats me very badly. after a brutal cream is hoping the courts rule in her favor even if that means she'll be out on the street with nothing but she wants the judge to decide soon before hardcore islamised get into power and human rights activists like dr side i bring him are worried the future of a weakened state to the role of women. the full equality of women. living in the under my door.

and that is the evidence. in the road to progress to develop and so why don't we and might be inspiring her generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her fearlessness in tweeting and blogging about the revolution normal people are asking if it's possible that the revolution it was supposed to liberate its people might just land up in slaving at least a part of it policy r.t. . for egypt is about to decide who will have the state's top job but still lacks a constitution later this hour here in r.t. we hear from an expert on how that's affecting the path to democracy. we're told oh no just we are going to solve the problem with the presidential election that's not going to happen and look at what is happening now so we have even people saying we have to stop the whole the process because even the fact that we have someone who is representing the all regime they should be how come and be still here where they

were saying that we need to put in the constitution that the people who are from the old regime cannot present themselves for the next ten years but you cannot come with this because it's not in the constitution and constitution is going to be written after the election it's a mess it's not there is no transparency and how can you speak about the margaret procedures if there is no transparency in the way it's put. argentina's president cristina fernandez de kirchner will lay out her country's claim to the falkland islands and a un meeting in new york this thursday it takes place thirty years to the day after the war over the british territory ended decades on ownership disputed died down islanders will hold a referendum next year to decide their future and tina says the british illegally occupied the falklands which it calls the now almost two hundred years ago nine hundred people died in one hundred eighty two conflict now islanders say they're

being forgotten among all the high level posturing political analyst martin mccauley says it's the lucrative oil reserves off the falklands coast that's fueling the dispute. it's if you like signal to one's art is that the focus is or is the argentinians call the last move in this part of britain and don't wish to become a province of argentina if you look at the language which is coming from what is are is the argentinian government is using very very strong language some people might say threads about security of the falkland islands the falklands. or claimed by. britain france and even the dutch. do claim. very soon one but argentina is concerned about structure. under the water the. idea to you to discover the.

possible extent right through to the falklands. british companies. prospecting for. the falklands so we see find. strategic and economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy. in the us several classified documents revealing the obama administration's achievements in battling terrorism have recently been leaked to the american media has put the white house in the firing line for jeopardizing national security the sake of the president's political gain one former foreign service officer at the state department please america could pay a high price for leaks. leaking information that paper's you is not unique to obama i think what's unique you are two things first the secrecy of these infor of this information the starts network of things that are going on in iran bush the raid that killed bin a lot of information came out in those instances that was beyond top secret and was

known to very few people and that's something new coupled with the almost aggression persecution of whistleblowers his use of the espionage act that's the other side of this war and that's the other thing that's unique in this case obama's ratings go up he watches the polls very carefully they put out this information that he practically does these things himself with his bloody hands and its popularity goes up this is about a president who believes that he will turns right or wrong he alone can decide what information may be amateur united states and what information he needs to brag about his own purposes just as he alone apparently decides who lives and who dies under america's drones when other u.s. drone strike has hit pakistan after four militants were reportedly killed in the northwest the latest attack security officials say the drone fired two missiles i think vehicle ten days ago an air strike in the same region which is seen as a taliban stronghold left fifteen al qaeda terrorists dead including

a senior figure yemen's government says it's working to set a town from al qaeda after days of airstrikes and clashes in the country's south presence took control of several there is a year ago the army has successfully retaken some of strongholds seventeen al qaida members were killed in latest phase of the operation which is seen as a major success in yemen's president. hundreds of firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in northern colorado and that's the death of a sixty two year old woman in the hot dry weather and changing winds a hampering their efforts and scores of people being evacuated from the area dozens of homes are still threatened and emergency crews are expected to be fighting the blaze for weeks to come. but times are tough in ireland and for increasing numbers of people in dublin that means descent into addiction drug abuse centers in the city say they're seeing more addicts coming through their doors but as laura smith

reports the cash strapped government is not so keen to pay for their rehab. it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make mary rubbing shoulders with the seedy underbelly tenement blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin tony gagan runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to crime and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week. when people have less disposable income and can't find work or can't find you know. more recourse. you know turned. on people you know it's a two way street between drugs and crime and knoll not his real name is recovering

from years of drug addiction his is a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community when i was single more. we lived on social welfare and my father would have been a. noted everything except heroin finding his brother dead from an overdose as a teenager saw to that he's in a four month rehab program partly funded at least for now by the state isn't getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs in drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of addict desperate to get a drug rehab center to seeing their government funding for every year state drug

program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for them. varies drop in center for the homeless waiting lists a growing from a few days to weeks or months he says addicts need immediate attention something they're less and less likely to get to become tomorrow's the say no point in even trying i'm never going to do it so having access to treatment programs to my mind is fatal if in this fight against drugs both treatment programs in ireland or hopelessly inadequate and as the recession boy even harder they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smith r.t. . without it so join katie on the business there so we're all the situations spain this certain to be at the forefront of investors' minds i would imagine today and it's really true we gather what's there then the exit actually that's right i think

spain will no doubt be i mean it's a constant theme it's been dominating the financial markets it of recent weeks will be the focus today and that's because europe's third largest economy it hosts a keyboard on sale today and it's hoping to stem phase but they might be the next country that requires a bailout after the bank bailout we had for spain of a hundred million a year i was so as i say all eyes set on that yesterday we had another tally in bond ocean and it was a disappointment we did see boring rates go up so as i say it's early today now let's have a look at the russian markets because they are indeed now i've been on its own they days they've been open for about twenty minutes or so now but you're looking at losses right there is half a percent for the obvious a third of a percent for the my sex and yesterday we had traders here returning to their deaths after the public holidays and they finished up with a high and that was largely because they're playing catch up so right now they've

digested all of the news coming out of the year. weak economic data we have from the u.s. as well this is how they're reacting also we can all is of course playing a part here in russia as well so next our carry on to have a breakdown of all the movers and shakers on the my sex some of the biggest blue chips and see who's really suffering in today's session and check out the brutal because that too is now moving i believe it's losing out to both the u.s. dollar and the year as you can see just there is indeed dropping if we look at the common cards today one twenty five seventy one so it's managing to gain ever society demonstrating a bit of resilience but from traders remains that bearish for the trade as favorite pair is the most traded currency pad on the market as well talk about europe so i'll stick with that i want to talk about moody's in the fact that they slashed spain's credit rating really adding insult to injury by three notches so that out

just above that junk status it says it's reasoning behind it is because of the buy one hundred made in your eyes and they're saying that of course they're going to have to pay this money back someday and therefore it's just adding to the debt now it's not even the end there's talk of a another downgrade down the line as well and that says a boring writes as i mentioned continue to cry now moody's has also cut its rating on cyprus so another country that's really struggling by tearing our chairs out is talking about the greek exit as a reason as well as the fiscal problems in the country to. concern ourselves with today this is how the asian markets go down because in a cafe is now actually closed see the closing figure for the japanese bourse as you can see two tenths of a cents down in negative territory and i want to talk about china because criticized. both reduced growth figures for the chinese economy other talk of all

the international pressure is taking its toll on the second biggest economy in the world so it's not. from seven point seven percent point seven percent from eight percent to so enviable when we compare it with that european countries but it's still a drop nevertheless so that's one to watch another sign that there's a slow patch in the chinese economy to watch out for let's see the closing figures for wall street that and see what their reaction to all of this was yesterday i did mention some weak economic data coming out of the u.s. yesterday it was retail they disappointed somewhat as well as that i did also mention the italian bond ocean the first one that we had and we gearing up for the second one today as i say so if it down joe's six tenths of cent down on the nasdaq point seven percent in negative territory let's check out those oil prices and i've mentioned them now if we look at the prices they are indeed sixty percent we're looking at a mild lows even though they're climbing ever ever just

a fraction right now today's a big day for the or markets because we've got opec meeting now accounts for around forty percent of the world's oil production they're going to be talking about how much they're going to produce for the second half of the year as far as economists are concerned there is suspecting it to stay relatively the same but if it does change is expected to go on the upside to increase so we'll be watching that one over there is that small case for now next i'm going to talk about the blue chips here muskerry ok thanks a lot for katy. well in about twenty minutes time we'll tell you who's in the running to get out of the group of death row twenty twelve football championships faster recover for top stories in just a few moments to stay with us here about. cool

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